I have also heard about tornado families–what are they?
A tornado family is a group of tornadoes spawned by a single thunderstorm. A “family” has had as many as 7 tornadoes, although two is much more common. The family gets a name based on the most damaging event. In 1991, a tornado passed over an underpass on the Kansas Turnpike, resulting in a famous video. That tornado was the fourth and last member of the Andover tornado family. The Andover tornado was the third tornado from that thunderstorm and it killed 17 people. • What do tornadoes sound like? Do they really sound like a train? Many tornadoes have been described as sounding like a train. Others have been described as sounding like a jet plane, or a waterfall. The sound probably depends on how strongly the funnel is interacting with the ground. Tornadoes that are passing just above ground level may sound more like bees. The sound of the swirling column has never been recorded without the distortion caused by the wind rushing towards the tornado. • Sometimes we have thunderstorms at
